introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate the changes in camp and some other cellular ingredients following adenyl cyclase activation in paragigantocellularis (pgi) neurons of morphine dependent and withdrawn rats. material and methods: the 3.5 mm thick brainstem slice prepared from pgi area (-10.04 to -13.24 from bregma) of control and morphine dependent rats (n=5 in each group). wer...

PURPOSE To anticipate outstanding athletic outcomes, the selection process of elite athletes simultaneously considers psychophysiological and technical parameters. This study aimed to investigate whether selected and nonselected athletes for the Italian national taekwondo team could be discriminated by means of sport specific performances and psychophysiological responses to training. PARTICI...

Fort Oglethorpe. Up to April 27, 1918, when new methods were put into use, approximately 140,000 soldiers had been examined. On July 1, 1918, 600,000 had been examined. Of this number, slightly more than 0.25% had been recommended by psychological examiners to psychiatrists for discharge because of mental deficiency, and about 0.5% had been recommended for assignment to service organizations fo...

phosphodiesterases  (pde)  hydrolyse intracellular camp  and  cgmp  to  inactive  5’ monophosphates. decreased level of camp is involved in the pathogenesis of asthma. we and others have shown that phosphodiesterases were upregulated in the lung of allergic rats, and bacilli calmette-guérin (bcg) induced the production of camp in vitro. however, it is unclear how bcg’s effect asthma and whether...

Thirty-two female Sprague-Dawley rats were assigned to one of four groups: control (CON); exercise training (TR); exercise training + clenbuterol treatment (0.8 mg kg body wt(-1) d(-1)) (TR + CL) or exercise training + clenbuterol treatment + 2% beta-guanidinoproprionic acid diet (TR + CL + beta) to examine whether alterations in the high energy phosphate state of the muscle mediates exercise t...

Radical Islam as a political phenomenon has undergone significant changes during the first decades of 21st century. This process was accompanied, firstly, by strengthening unification trends in ideological field, and secondly, development specific “Jihadi Cool” subculture that combined features consumer society (modern music, stylish clothes, Islamic merch, youth magazines, etc.) jihadist agend...